Ever since I was very young, I would buy electronic toys and after I played with them for sometime I would start to dismantle them. I collected the electronic parts, like boards, motors, gears and stuff with the hopes and dreams of building something with them someday. I even built a "flying" bird cage that did not fly using an unused bird cage (RIP birdy) and lots of electronic parts I collected. While it's 'wings' flapped it wasnt enough.
One day Someone introduced me to computers and even built me a PC to take home. I had it before I had a smartphone in my life. For a few years that computer meant nothing more than something to play games in and an excuse to make easy friends. My memories are faded but somehow I learned about coding. Even before I took Computer Science as my subject in my 11th and 12th I was learning to code by myself. I even took a tiny c/c++ course before I started my 11th. For some people this won't sound so good, but I could fail in every subject and not worry about it as I would do well in CS. Sure I worried a bit for all the social and parental pressure that was around me. I just wanted to learn coding and didn't know why they were force feeding me everything else.
I'm not a coding wizard, ninja or prodigy. I still am quite novice in coding. I don't know what the journey ahead is like for me but I'm very thankful to the person that introduced me to playing games on a computer and building me a computer to take home. It really set a positive direction in my life that I really needed.
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